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By Anulfo BaezMarch 5, 2013 0

Textual Image: Visual Text – Artists’ Books from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts

In The Century of Artists’ Books, art historian and artist Johanna Drucker argues that artists’ books are the quintessential 20th century art form par excellence. Drucker points out that artists’ books came of age after 1945 when these gained their…

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By BR&SMarch 5, 2013 0

Go & See: Tuesday 5 — Monday 11 March

Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday March 5 Artists For Humanity, 100 W 2nd street, Boston EpiCenter Talks: Jay Gordon, co-founder…

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By BR&SMarch 4, 2013 0

MIT’s List joins the international Culture Shutdown: 4 March 2013

In solidarity with major cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center has joined Culture Shutdown, an international awareness campaign, and has taped off the entrance to their exhibitions Amalia Pica and Olivier Laric: Versions for the day. Last…

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By Scott AlarioMarch 4, 2013 0

Inside Out: Rachell Sumpter

Given the criteria that the guest artist-in-residence to follow me must 1. work in a different medium, and 2. live elsewhere, choosing March’s Inside Out contributor proved more difficult than I thought. It basically meant I needed to cold-call…

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By BR&SMarch 1, 2013 0

#FirstFriday: 1 March 2013

This #FirstFriday, head over to the ICA from 5-10pm and catch one of your last chances to see This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s before it closes on March 3rd. While there, you can also…

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By Margaret RewMarch 1, 2013 0

Art for Breakfast: Sandback’s ‘Untitled (Sculptural Study for Room with Three Entrances)’

The lines are made of yarn, carefully and precisely establishing invisible walls. The planes cut through our space. They prepare an odd, triangular room for us. Navigate me, they say. Come, question me. Respect my negative space, even as you…

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By Scott AlarioFebruary 28, 2013 0

Inside Out: Twenty+ Sentences

Inside Out: Twenty+ Sentences I recently came across this list of twenty sentences on photography by Norwegian born, L.A. based, Torbjørn Rødland: 1. The muteness of a photograph matters as much as its ability to speak. 2. The juxtaposition of…

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By BR&SFebruary 27, 2013 0

Harvard Art Museums to Open Expanded and Renovated Facility in Fall 2014

The Harvard Art Museums announced that its much awaited renovation and expansion of the 32 Quincy Street building will finally open to the public in the fall of 2014. Since breaking ground in 2010, the project has presented numerous challenges…

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By John PyperFebruary 27, 2013 0

This Will Have Been and NYC 1993

Two of today’s more compelling shows consider work that was made or displayed for the first time at around the same point. Boston’s ICA of course has This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, which…

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By Matthew KuhlmanFebruary 26, 2013 0

Studio Sessions: Piotr Parda

Welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions interviews, this time with Piotr Parda. Piotr earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2000, and earned a second MFA form the School of the…

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By BR&SFebruary 26, 2013 0

Go & See: Tuesday February 26 — Monday March 4

Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Wednesday February 27 Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA Presentation: Mark J. Stock,…

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By Robyn DayFebruary 25, 2013 0

Bruce Davidson: Witness at Robert Klein Gallery and Ars Libri

So you’ve seen Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street at the Museum of Fine Arts and just can’t help wanting more? That is quite possibly the third of life’s proverbial certainties, and the only one worth indulging. Fortunately, all you have…

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By Scott AlarioFebruary 25, 2013 0

Inside Out: Between Books and Dark

I’ve been making progress on one of the RISD photography graduate thesis requirements: our thesis book. This book will contain our work, in images, as well as a text document that is to be part research paper, part personal…

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By Paul FitzgeraldFebruary 24, 2013 0

Artful Adventures: Doctor’s Orders

Remedy the aches and ills of a long, cold winter with a visit to The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation where the astonishing ability of the human body to heal itself is triumphantly on display.…

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By Hannah BaconFebruary 22, 2013 0

Art for Breakfast: Philip Guston’s Painting, Smoking, Eating

Philip Guston’s pictography forms an intimate coded narrative. This style (for which he is known) only emerged late is his career and life, and feel sincere and autobiographical. Guston’s appropriation of the style of underground comics is a crude…

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By John PyperFebruary 22, 2013 0

Singing music from other countries: Song and Dunia Tak Akan Mendengar

I’ve been listening to The Smiths’ The World Won’t Listen on and off for over a month solely because of Phil Collins and Wellesley College. It’s a bit too emo for my tastes today, but I don’t remember thinking that…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigFebruary 22, 2013 0

Renting Basquiat

“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…

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By Anulfo BaezFebruary 21, 2013 0

Pacific Standard Time presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.

I’m loving these promotional videos by Pacific Standard Time and the Getty Trust celebrating the people, art and architecture of Los Angeles. If you find yourself in the city this spring and summer, don’t miss Pacific Standard Time presents: Modern…

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By Renée DoucetteFebruary 19, 2013 0

Michael Childress: Navigation Paintings

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, past Hawaii but before Japan, is a collection of landmasses called the Marshall Islands. When the Europeans finally came calling in the early 16th century on their exploration ships there was trepidation,…

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By BR&SFebruary 19, 2013 0

Go & See: Tuesday 19 — Monday 25 February

Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday February 19 Café Fixe, 1642 Beacon St Brookline, MA Non-Event presents: KATZE KATZE is…

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